Word: backgrounding
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Though hardly to the bordello born, Barrows had a background in legitimate business. After attending the Stoneleigh-Burnham boarding school for girls in Greenfield, Mass., Barrows enrolled in Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology, where she studied merchandising and business management. Graduating first in her class, she won a $1,000 scholarship to advance her studies. She spent the money touring Europe with her boyfriend from The Bronx, Steve Rozansky, who last week peddled the pictures of her to New York newspapers. Says Rozansky, now a casino blackjack dealer: "She told me my New York Jewish accent would always...
Muzak and other forms of background music have been a part of the American office scene for a half-century, partly in the belief that music soothes people into working more efficiently. But all of it sounds pretty much alike, and some of it, in fact, can lull people to sleep. Now two Washington State entrepreneurs, Michael Malone and Mark Torrance, have selected different kinds of music for different kinds of situations. They call it foreground music. Malone's firm, Audio Environments of Seattle, this year expects sales of $15 million...
LEADERSHIP IS both the rarest and most necessary commodity in American politics. For the past four years, our country has been blessed with the stewardship of Ronald Reagan, a man of humble background who has presided over the most successful presidency of our generation...
...inexperienced Congresswoman to the ticket, Recently the country has learned that Geraldine Ferrane has student after skeleton in her ethical closet, Vice President Bush, in stark contrast, boasts perhaps the most complete resume--including ambassador to China and CIA director-among public servants. The problems in Ferraro's background no doubt surprised Mondale as much they did the rest of the country, and they illustrate incptitude and amateur nature of his campaign...
...forms of the Arlesian landscape, its patchwork of fields and tree-lined roads, were already embedded in his Dutch background-"it reminds one of Holland: everything is flat, only one thinks rather of the Holland of Ruisdael or Hobbema than of Holland as it is"-but the color was like nothing in Van Gogh's previous life. Seeing his desire for "radical" color confirmed in the actual landscape gave him confidence. It affected even those paintings in which no landscape occurs, like the self-portrait of Vincent with a shaved head, gazing not at but past the viewer with...